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    traveling back in time is not mathematically disallowed by the general relativity.

    in fact there is a lot of work done on the topic, and lots of potential scenarios proposed (which usually involve describing the space-time warped into weird 4D shapes). what GR does tell you is what kind of matter/energy would produce such spaces (since in GR these two are intertwined), and that’s kind of where common sense works again: most proposed geometries do require either negative energy densities or mathematical singularities (which to be fair are not impossible, but we kinda never seen that, aside from dark energy).

    on the other hand – faster-than-light travel is also possible – albeit with similar constraints.

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      traveling back in time is not mathematically disallowed by the general relativity.

      Moving mass backwards through time isn’t strictly mathematically disallowed. Idk what it’s going to look like when it arrives, though.

      What does a Tachyon even look like?

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        i didn’t mean purely mathematically. but from the physics standpoint. in other words, if you provide enough dark energy and shape it into a specific configuration, it will generate space-time where time travel is possible in practice.

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    Every single one of us is travelling through space on a tiny speck of dirt, circling a permanent explosion that doesn’t know how to stop itself at 30km/s.
    That explosion and multiple specks of dirt besides our own dance around the center of the galaxy in a complex ballet with 200 billion other permanently exploding balls of fire and plasma, many of which are sizeably larger than ours and also have collected pieces of dirt circling around them, at a speed of 200km/s. The center of this agglomeration of giant balls of fire and dirt is a… thing… that is in itself so massive it can’t help eating everything that comes near including suns, light, and the concept of time.

    And there, travelling around the center of the galaxy at 200km/s, spiraling around your sun at 30km/s, there is you. And somehow you have to work tomorrow.

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    Bloodletting is still a legitimate medical treatment, now called therapeutic phlebotomy.

    Some medicines, like testosterone, can increase your hemoglobin or blood count, so giving blood is the fix for it.

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      Testosterone, even when taken at supraphysiologic dosages, rarely causes erythrocytosis to an extent that therapeutic phlebotomy is necessary.

      Other anabolic steroids, particularly Equipoise (aka Boldenone), increase red blood cell count significantly more than testosterone.

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      Hemochromatosis, too. Body doesn’t eliminate iron so it can build up in organs, notably liver and kidneys.

      The treatment is bloodletting. My wife wanted to get leeches. I settled for just donating 32 times in the first year after finding out. My ferritin count was 9 times the usual max for a man my age. My gallbladder fluid was carrying iron. I was Iron Man.

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    There are more grains of sand on the planet Earth than there are stars in the solar system.

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    Ethanol can help protect your liver from the damage an acetaminophen overdose causes.

    You’d think that doubling up on liver harming substances would have an additive effect, but nope.

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      Similarly, ethanol can help protect you from the poisonous effects of methanol (wood alcohol). Methanol by itself isn’t actually harmful, but it gets broken down into harmful byproducts that will make you go blind and then kill you.

      The enzyme responsible for breaking down methanol is also used to break down ethanol. And enzymes have a limited capacity for work. In other words, they can only break down a certain number of molecules at any given time. And the enzyme is more compatible with ethanol than methanol.

      So if you suspect someone drank methanol, (it is a common ingredient in antifreeze), you should have them start taking shots. Pump them full of as much liquor as possible, as quickly as possible. Get them absolutely shitfaced ASAP, and keep them wasted until they get to the hospital. It will prevent the vast majority of the methanol from being broken down, which will prevent the actual poisoning from happening.

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        It’s ethylene glycol that’s commonly in antifreeze, but ethanol protects against that too. I believe methanol is common in windshield wiper fluid, though.

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            Pretty much. Mazda had an issue with spiders attracted to gasoline clogging up fuel systems while being shipped overseas. And soy-based wire sheathing is apparently quite the delicacy to certain animals.

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        I haven’t seen it happen, but I wouldn’t be surprised.

        My girl bun does stick her nose up my boy bun’s butt sometimes. But I think that’s just to nip his thighs and get him to move out of her way lol

        Oh! I forgot, mama rabbits feed their special poops to their babies. So the answer is, yes, they do eat other rabbit’s poops.

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      I like this fact and as a geologist I’m a little numb to facts about the Earth. At some level, all land on Earth has a volcanic origin by virtue of us having a molten core, a rigid mantle, and a crusty crust that seeps magma/lava. Time metamorphoses and sediments the rock in different ways. Antarctica just had the misfortune of migrating to the South Pole where millions of years of snow fall lead to its icy encapsulation.

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    If you get methanol poisoning for example from badly made liquor then the remedy for that is to drink ethanol (good liquor).

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      Bonus fact. A significant amount of sea level rise due to climate change is caused by thermal expansion of the water.